Cropped Out festival unites Louisville's outsiders

12:18 PM,
Sep. 28, 2012

R. Stevie Moore

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The Cropped Out festival is dedicated to music's outliers, people who not only color outside the lines but often don't acknowledge that there are lines. Some are avowed experimentalists, actively dedicated to pushing boundaries, while others are simply making music in the only way that speaks to them. Either way, the boundaries get pushed.

Cropped Out's founders, Louisville natives Ryan Davis and James Ardery, began the fest as a way to give these performers the kind of showcase and credit that often elude them. When it debuted three years ago, the fest itself was an outlier.